On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 08:57:07AM -0600, Mate Wierdl wrote:
> On Fri, Feb 05, 1999 at 09:19:35AM -0500, Dave Sill wrote:
> > Mate Wierdl <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > >
> > >Again, what if
> > >
> > >UID 794 1794 2794 are taken?
> >
> > If none of the UID/GID sets is available, the installation will fail.
> > Surely failed installation is acceptable, e.g., due to insufficient
> > disk space.
>
> But then there is no way to install the binary-
You are correct, sir.
> --unless the installer starts
> moving uids around. (Just being picky, but the arg is certainly valid on a
> busy system)
I'd leave the uid moving to the sysadmin in question.
I'm perfectly content with having a binary distribution which is
picky about the state of the system.
Not only do you have to have one of five (or ten, or however many)
groups of UID/GID pairs, but you have to have the user/group name
space free as well. So there.
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John White
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